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Re: Black Screen after Hard Disk Install and "startx"

Hello,

Excuse me for my English, I'm French and I'm not sure that all I say will be comprehensible.

So I explain my issue.

I have install BT5 on my Eeepc in dual boot with Windows XP.
The install was correctly done despite blackscreen when booting Live CD. I fix that with the command line "i915.modeset=1" and now BT work perfectly.
But when I launch Windows XP, I have a black screen. The system boot because I can see the loading bar and I hear the starting sound.

If someone can Help me, please.

Also, Here my grub.conf file. I try to edit the custom entry but without success.

PHP Code:

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

Re: Black Screen after Hard Disk Install and "startx"

Hi Everyone,

I'm having the same issue,

I can't proceed with the installation process. i can't even go to the 'Install BackTrack" portion. I'm stuck at the "root@root:~#" and every time i type startx the screen goes black and capslock keep flashing. I have tried editing the grub but I can't grup-update since it is in the Live CD.

you are just changing "text" to "quiet" and "nomodset" to "i915.modset.modeset=1"

then hit ctrl-x to boot

See if that works. If so you can make the changes permanent by editing /etc/default/grub file with the changes above.
Change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text splash nomodeset vga=791"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.modeset=1 vga=791"

<SOLVED TO ME>Re: Black Screen after Hard Disk Install and "startx"

Hi friends...

at first... sorry by my english... i'm a brazillian one...

Ok... i've tried each topic of this forum...

I have a DELL VOSTRO 3300 with Intel Graphics card i915.

I'm using BT5 64bits with GNOME. To solve my problem was very simple... i just removed every thing between the quotes ("") in the line "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT"... I know... it's strange... but it's working right now... i'll attach here a copy of my /etc/default/grub file...

PLEASE!!! DON'T FORGET TO RECOMPILE THE GRUP AFTER CHANGE THE GRUB FILE... do this with the command "update-grup"

follow the grub file...

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

Re: Black Screen after Hard Disk Install and "startx"

hey guys i solved the 1st problem of no csreen found simply by typing ''fixvesa'' befor the ''startx'' it will boot normal but i have another problem now it's the wifi ( i'm booting from usb ) so the wifi on my laptop Dell inspiron n5010 core i3 had the Broadcom with bluetooth integrated so back to the problem that backtrack only show that i have lan but no wifi on my laptop.any help would be apreciated

Re: Black Screen after Hard Disk Install and "startx"

Originally Posted by snipes420

I am having a similar problem.
Acer Travelmate 5742
Intel HD Graphics

The 64-bit gnome Live DVD booted fine to the X environment.
I installed it to my hard drive. No errors.
Rebooted after to the default boot item and it booted up to a console login.
Login and try to 'startx'
The screen goes black and nothing happens.
Trying to press ctrl+alt+FX buttons doesn't switch to text virtual terminals. the system doesn't respond even to pressing the power button to initiate a power off. After a hard power off (hold the power botton) there is nothing in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log (file is 0 bytes).
Previous posters in this thread recommend installing proprietary drivers but this machine being Intel Graphics I am not able to do that.
I am thinking since the Live environment worked I will start there to track down a working configuration.